Episode Report Card Pamie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Who Wrote the Book of Love?
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.03.2004
Luke's sister knocks on the window, and I just want to call her Chloe, even though I'm pretty sure that's not her name on this show too, but between all the un-realized crappy female characters on this show (Lindsay, Nicole, Janet, Rachel, Kirk's girlfriend...) it's becoming harder and harder to remember all the tertiary names. Luke hides his self-help tape and gets of his truck, asking what she's doing there. Chloe (because that's what I'm going to call her for now) calls Luke her brother so that we remember who she is and then re-introduces T.J., the DeLuise who is forty. I wouldn't have remembered his being named T.J., but I do remember the last thing he said to Luke was, "You're a dick." I guess that's all water under the bridge. Ah. Elizabeth. Liz. That's Luke's sister's name. I know this because T.J. says it here for our benefit. Liz says she and T.J. are getting married next week in Stars Hollow. She says they need to do it before the Ren Faire circuit got going so that all their friends could come. You mean there's an off period for Ren Faires? You really do learn something new every day. T.J. says that Ren Faire weddings are great, and goes on about the turkey legs and horses and costumes. No offense to those of you who will probably take offense to this, but there's nothing creepier than a Ren Faire wedding. It's so about weak men wanting to be macho and awkward girls allowing themselves to be put in these damsel in distress/wench/helpless princess/prize roles and with pixie dust and the celebration of a backwards movement in medicine. It's weird, is what it is. Who really wants to wear a suit of armor? Drink mead? I had a boyfriend in high school who loved this shit, and his mom made me -- made me -- a wench outfit to wear to the Ren Faire (unbeknownst to me). When you date Ren Faire boys you have to say words like "unbeknownst." Anyway, thank m'lord that Houston's weather reaches boiling points during Ren Faire season, so the burlap sac that was made for my fine bushels would have given me the vapors for sure and I got to wear my Jane's Addiction t-shirt and some cut-offs like a normal human being. Huzzah.
Luke tells Liz she has to slow down. Liz says that if you slow down, you die. T.J. asked her to be his fair maiden last week, and she said aye. Liz says they're "grabbing life by the ping-pongs." I'd support a constitutional amendment banning that expression before anybody else uses it. T.J. says he's going to have a blast of a bachelor party, and invites Luke, albeit only out of obligation. He jokes that Luke's about 800th on the list of potential best men, but he'd still like Luke to come to the party. Liz tells Luke to tell her he's happy for her. Luke says he's happy and promises to go to the bachelor party. T.J. says it's great that Luke will continue to keep up appearances that they like each other, and then announces that he's off to get some beer. He leaves, prompting Luke to ask how T.J. would know where to go. Maybe the sign behind him that says "Dooce's Market" might be an indication. Liz says that T.J. has a nose for these kinds of things. Does she mean for beer? Liz tells Luke that the wedding is going to be unbelievable. She talks about her dress and how she looks straight out of Camelot and she's so excited to be getting married again.